'Be at the big Book-Bonfire! Destroy all literature but that on the state-approved list! All the 'free thought' of living "under God" will "water down the issue" of raising our children to serve their Next Dubya!' ---Uncle MythMan & we Xombies Enlighten You on Money, Love, God etc. Turn Xombie & Help! & LinkBrander will help you 'feast on the Internet Brains'!

This is mainly in response to JD's comment on home schooling being the answer I can agree with you on some points Jd, In Britain at least out GCSE and A level system is a sham. I took Biology, Physics and Geography at Full A level, and in Biology and physics we where being taught how to pass the exam, not the subject. To the point where entire lessons would be centered around the teacher telling us what questions we might get, based on the questions normally asked and the questions that had been asked over the previous years. Pnly my geography teacher, a moderate eccentric actually believed in education. He gave us only the bare minimum information in class, we had to make our own notes when watching videos or other forms of education, and where frequently given piles and piles of photocopied sheets from text books with the line "Read them if you want to learn. If you don't then why did you pick this subject?" He also did something most other teachers baulk at: He told us his opinions, and he encouraged us to form our own opinions. He tried to teach us to question things and learn about them, then decide if what we where told was fact or not. Sometimes entire lessons would be 'wasted' as a debate flared up between me, him and the one or two other people in the class who actually wanted to be there. Debates on topics ranging from 'Is Climate change actually a man made phenomenon?" or "What is the cause of problems in the middle east?" He didn't want to contribute to the drone factory, and it's a shame that 95% of the class just thought it was funny they could get away without doing any work. Basically JD, I agree that the school system is screwed, but home schooling would cause children to miss out on a lot of important social lessons, such as bullying, making friends, learning who to trust, a degree of self reliance, and possibly most importantly- making mistakes and dealing with them. I had to learn all these life lessons in school, and I don't think I would have learned them schooled at home as I used to live in a backwater village where the entire population where chavs. The solution is simply better teachers who try to engage and interest pupils, and a movement towards a more university style education where much of the research is done independently. And incidentally, The bible shouldn't be banned, but at the same time I want books such as Zen Buddhism: Selected Writings. D.T. Suzuki, released as well. Free religion means they all have rights. -Evis T From the keyboard of a madman.

As George Carlin says, '"The Owners of our country" don't want "citizens who live the intelligent life," they want "obedient workers"---people who are smart enough to push the buttons their s`posta push, but too dumb to carry on a meaningful conversation about how badly they're gettin` screwed!' That's why Napoleon Hill points out the distinct difference between 'education' and 'schooling.' Sure, a ~little~ schooling is necessary to develop the skills that make us each 'compatible/accessible' to each other via the economy; but the 'education' is entirely up to each of us individually---the very meaning of the word is 'producing from within.' Now I see why Hill states that "the main problem with schooling today is: that it is FREE." I mean, after the "reading and writing and `rith-me-tic," you're most of SCHOOL IS A WASTE OF TIME (especially if 'time is money' ... how much does your grade-school owe you?) ---Uncle MythMan & we Xombies Enlighten You on Money, Love, God etc. Turn Xombie & Help! & LinkBrander will help you 'feast on the Internet Brains'!

I didn't realise bibles were banned in US public schools. Very funny, considering how many millions of bibles the USA produces to distribute to the poor un-christians of the world. Do you have religious education classes in schools? Guess that's why ID propagandists want to smuggle christianity into the science classes. The reasons for the ban seem laughable, though, like kids are gonna learn about sex from the bible when they have soft porn celebrities to drool over. Keep the ban. Give the bibles to those in the third world short of burning material. Money for your Thoughts - join now OWO-BV